Bill Gates
William Henry Gates III is the co-founder and Chairman of Microsoft, and founder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Forbes magazine has ranked him as the richest person in the world for twelve consecutive years.
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The frontiers were sort of wide open. It was that sense of excitement that we really wanted to spark in everybody else wherever we went.
Bill Gates
There will be 'two societies' in the future: high-paid knowledge workers and low-paid service workers.
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We are experiencing the early days of a revolution...that will be long-lived and widespread.
Bill Gates
The opportunity to engage people who are very far away from each other and yet might have interesting information is better here than has ever been possible.
Bill Gates
In terms of fast food and deep understanding of the culture of fast food, I'm your man.
Bill Gates
As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
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Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time.
Bill Gates
We decided that we wanted our developers to come with clear minds, not polluted by some other approach, to learn the way that we liked to develop software, and to put the kind of energy into it that we thought was key.
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This is a very exciting time in the world of information. It's not just that the personal computer has come along as a great tool. The whole pace of business is moving faster. Globalization is forcing companies to do things in new ways.
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Kids are really incredible, in terms of how much they dive into this and just take it as a given. They'll be the ones who really bring the web lifestyle into the mainstream.
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The vision is really that in the information age the microprocessor-based machine, the PC, along with great software, can become sort of the ultimate tool dealing with not just text, but numbers and pictures, and eventually, even difficult things like motion video.
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Our vision of what's important is exactly the same today, bringing together the best systems and the best software to empower people with rich information solutions.
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Anytime we have new forms of communication, it changes behavior whether it is political or business or any type of behavior. Radio and TV did that. The PC will be classed as big or bigger an advancement in communications than those devices were.
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The key for us, number one, has always been hiring very smart people.
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I'm in the same traffic as everybody else. I'm in the same airplane delay as everybody else. I sit in the same coach seat as everybody else.
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I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.
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If we weren't still hiring great people and pushing ahead at full speed, it would be easy to fall behind and become a mediocre company.
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There's a basic philosophy here that by empowering...workers you'll make their jobs far more interesting, and they'll be able to work at a higher level than they would have without all that information just a few clicks away.
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As I look forward, I'm very optimistic about the things I see ahead.
Bill Gates
The people who resist change will be confronted by the growing number of people who see that better ways...are available thanks to technology.
Bill Gates
I see a lot of change, a lot of opportunity. We're not just talking about taking the advances of the past and suffusing them out into 100 percent of companies. We're talking about new waves, and new ways of thinking about the Internet, and that's going to keep all of our jobs very, very exciting.
Bill Gates
We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.
Bill Gates
I think all students start off with incredible ability and curiosity, and if they're given the opportunity to pursue that, if they're given a chance to see the neat things about the world in terms that they can appreciate and enjoy, that their abilities will be reinforced and that we'll really achieve so much more potential out of the great students we have than we do today.
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Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.
Bill Gates
One thing people underestimate is how markets don't allow anyone to do anything except make better and better products.
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